Detached garment band



' June 2. 1925. 1540,00?,

L. M. HALLER f 'DETACHED GARMENT BAND Filed Feb. 8, 1925 05 y gf/@ Afm l Patented June 2, 1925.

' Bands, of which the following is a speeifica- UNITED STATES PATENT offici-LQ LILLIE Mi TIALLEB, or .SAN ranno, CALIFORNIA,

nnraennn GARMENT BAND.

Application' led February 8, 1923. Serial No. 617,759.

To all whom it may concern:

- Be it known that I, 'LrLLrn M. HALLER, a

citizen of the United States, residing at San Pedro, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Detached Garment manufacture a garment band element Wholly finished and ready to be easily attached to a given garment.y The garment band is 1ntended forv attachment to the inside of the v top of pants and bloomers for children. An

of the reinforcing material..j 45

object of the inventionis to provide a garment band' having stitched Abuttonholes and having portions of the band reinforced to withstand strainsubjected* at thebuttonholes to the band. lAnother objectA is topr0- vide as a complete article a buttonholed garment' band capable of being made in standard lengths and sizes :of any suitable material and having the, holesl positioned accurately for respective buttons upon the -garment to which the bands are to be buttoned.

Another object is to provide a garment band having end vbuttonholes disposed diagonally to the length of the band, and which band ends aremateriall ,e vreinforced so as to prevent mutilation of e band ends Where the diagonal .buttonhole's' extend diagonallf -to the warp-andwe't ofthefabric o Whic the bandis constructed, itvbeing an, object to provide' areinforce having a buttonhole slit'which is parallel to the warp and'iareit"A of the reinforce, but whichfgreinforceisin itself cut on lines `obliquejto the-'warp 4and weft so that. when applied,the'reinforcewl ea s take the strain on lines parallel to the th Other objects andadvantag invention and intended,v to back of the garment. .a f

be used inthe Fig. 2 .is a cross sectionv online 3 is a 'perspective of anotherformof the invention to be. used in front of the garment. o l

wliich the band'is to be applied.v

l Fig. 4 is a section on line 4 4 of Fig, 3;

Fig. 5 is a plan longitudinally broken away and showing a reinforcing means for the bandol. a modified form of aband to used in the back ofl the garment. Q f

Fig. 6 is ,a plan of the'reinforcing'piece.`

The article ofthespresent invention conof any suitab ed to be folded ona longitudinal line so as to such as The longitudinal overlapping edges of the sists of a single piece, preferably, of fabric e'material' and which is adapt-- band element are preferably inturned to form hems 3 for obtaining aneat and practical linish when the band element is applied to an edgefof a garment, such as childrens pants or drawers, over the edge of which garment the innerend outer plies of the band elementA areslit and after which the band is stitchedl along the inserted edge of z the garment portion for secure attachment.

Preferably, t he`-ends`of the present garment band are-transversely stitched as on lines -thusclosing the ends of the plies,

and also at each end of the garment band is a buttonhole 6, buttonhole stitched, and at the center of the garment band there is provided a. buttonhole stitched, buttonhole -7 which is arranged, as here shown, straight It .will be seen that thel across theban complete article as I make it may consist of a two-ply band element made of one piece fof fabric having a'central and end buttonholes` and having the ends permanently 'stitched down; the overlapping edges of the folded'xnaterial being free so as to readily garment to receive an "inserted edge of a A feature of they invention is to provide a band of amplest-rength especially at the r j medial portion under the central-buttonhole ill be made manifest in the following specitication'- of embodiments of the invention illustrated inA the accompanying drawings,` wherein' Figure l isA a perspective of la formof the' without providing aband of undesirable Width from end to end, and as shown in Fir beneath the vcentral uttonhole 7, this in- "crease offWidt-h at the middle vportion of the band not only providing fora ydesired degree of strength' at this portion, but further providing a band of neat and attractive ap pearance,

' A form of reinforced end buttonhole conf struction is shown in Fig. 5 in which the' buttonholes are shownfas cut'obliquely the war and' weft of the fabric of which the ban 2 ismade, and in this formthe maf; terial is reinforced to. take the strains by the introductionvof a pieceof abrieof suitable material possessing desired strength lwhich y may economically be formed, as a reinforc-v V ing square 10, Fig. 6, in which is provided a Y slot" to be registered with the buttonhole 10 6*. This aperture is'fo'rmed,.in'y thereinforc'- ing square 10, parallel to the indieatedwarp i i or the weft as shown, so that the strainswill Virs .be parallel tofone system' ofthethreads in" the reinforcing squarerf This isint-roduced into the garment band in the-'coursezoffi-its manufacture and .,stitched byfr thef,ie nd eatest strain on thefbuttons and ward and inward pull, to` which the rear of the garments mentioned may be subjected,

- I Vbutton l itis usually suiiicent; to provide the rear.

bandonly Wit-h-reinforced-button holes and The' oles for the childrensl 'garments mentioned above is on the-rear thereof, and

with oblique button holes at the ends of the band, It shouldbe noted that the. oblique button holes will tend to close on adown- `'viliilehorizontal button holes, as showt-1in Figs. l and 3, would tend to open and' disengage the buttons held thereby.v With the provision of the oblique button'holes in the rear bands, the parts of the garment are held. f"

together by such button holes and the corresponding buttons will remainl fastened t'o, vlurther.embodiments, modiications and gether. t

variations may be resorted to 4withinplt-he spirit -ofthe invention as here claimed. 5

'What is claimed is:

Astanlarticleof manufacture, a garment 40gband, for attachment tothe'. tops of pants f:

and bloomers for children, consisting of innei` and out/erfv layers of material closed at with saidbuttonholes, the threads in lsaid reinforcing pieces being oblique yto said but- "ton holes and reinforcing the latter.. In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

LILLIE MHALLER. 

